And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony. He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John.3.32,John.3.33&version=KJV
We can learn from NDE testimonies.
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov.4.26&version=KJV
We all need to have a testimony.
Today’s study topic comes from our current trip to MCO. After a late flight and brief sleep I opened the word up to have this message revealed.
Although we may not be intentional regarding where we walk, it can lead to how we understand the mission to cities and citizens around us and what is being communicated in the culture. Paul’s gospel inform us of this exact journey when I think about it. He had a testimony by feet also.
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ps.119.59&version=KJV
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ps.119.63,Ps.119.72,Ps.119.73,Ps.119.101,Ps.119.105&version=KJV
I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end. The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ps.119.112,Ps.119.130,Ps.119.133&version=KJV
Here we see how our understanding can be confused by he words of someone else when we tune out the word of the Lord and his understanding. The communication sounds sweet but watch where feet may take another path:
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Prov.5.1,Prov.5.2,Prov.5.3,Prov.5.4,Prov.5.5&version=KJV
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt.10.14&version=KJV
The spiritual world is where we are in warfare.
Know Our Mission:
And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
And when ye come into an house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household? What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt.10.1,Matt.10.5,Matt.10.6,Matt.10.7,Matt.10.11,Matt.10.12,Matt.10.13,Matt.10.14,Matt.10.15,Matt.10.16,Matt.10.17,Matt.10.18,Matt.10.21,Matt.10.22,Matt.10.23,Matt.10.24,Matt.10.25,Matt.10.27,Matt.10.28,Matt.10.32,Matt.10.33,Matt.10.34,Matt.10.35,Matt.10.36,Matt.10.37,Matt.10.38,Matt.10.39,Matt.10.40&version=KJV
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run [their very best to win], but only one receives the prize? Run [your race] in such a way that you may seize the prize and make it yours! Now every athlete who [goes into training and] competes in the games is disciplined and exercises self-control in all things. They do it to win a crown that withers, but we [do it to receive] an imperishable [crown that cannot wither]. Therefore I do not run without a definite goal; I do not flail around like one beating the air [just shadow boxing]. But [like a boxer] I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached [the gospel] to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified [as unfit for service.